Only from the deck of a boat with the wind in your hair and brine in your face , does the Inland Sea reveal its true nature. Patterns of distant islands with evocative sounding names: Innoshima, Bentenjima, Awaji, Shikoku... advance and retreat on the horizon as the ferry chugs along. There has long been a romantic notion of Japan's Inland Sea and its salty charm. Yukio Mishima's novel The Sound of Waves was set on one of these tiny islands. Donald Ritchie's classic travel tome The Inland Sea outlines his ferry-hopping quest for an bygone, retro Japan.
Inland Sea Images - Images by John Lander
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
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